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Fiscal Institutions and Public Sector Labor Markets
Poterba, James M.; Rueben, Kim S. - 2021
This paper investigates how state and local fiscal institutions affect the pattern of relative wages between state and local government employees and their private sector counterparts. It focuses on changes in relative wages during the 1979-1986 period. Empirical analysis of data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240548
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043619
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Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
Gittleman, Maury - 2015
Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing a new topical module to the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027687
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 2021
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226172
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2017
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962728
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Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2022
In a labor market hierarchy, promotions are affected by the noisiness of information about the candidates. I study the hypothesis that males are more risk taking than females, and its implications for rates of promotion and abilities of survivors. I define promotion hierarchies with and without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309243
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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907134
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Comparisons between Public and Private Sector Union Wage Differentials : Does the Legal Environment Matter?
Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021
A stylized fact in the growing literature on public sector labor markets is that estimates of public sector union wage premia are significantly lower than estimates of private sector union wage premia. In this paper I investigate the hypothesis that this difference may in part be due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219710
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The Distribution of Public Sector Wage Premia : New Evidence Using Quantile Regression Methods
Poterba, James M.; Rueben, Kim S. - 2021
This paper documents the changing pattern of wage differentials between state and local government employees and their private sector counterparts during the 1979-1992 period. While the relative wages of women employed in the two sectors changed very little during this period, the relative wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224191
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Changes in the Distribution of Wages, 1940-1950 : The Public vs. The Private Sector
Margo, Robert A.; Finegan, Aldrich - 2021
Between 1940 and 1950 wage differentials within and between labor market groups narrowed significantly - the so-called 'Great Compression'. This paper disaggregates the Great Compression into its public and private components. Wage compression in the public sector, along with a decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237561